Legend: unrounded • rounded A near-open vowel or a near-low vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
The defining characteristic of a near-open vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.
The near-open vowels with dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are: Other near-open vowels can be indicated with diacritics of relative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels, such as ⟨ɒ̽⟩ and ⟨ɑ̽⟩ for near-open near-back rounded and unrounded vowels.
Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless.
Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.